Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1915 — Crown Point Diamond Thief Being Pursued in New York. [ARTICLE]

Crown Point Diamond Thief Being Pursued in New York.

John H. Voelker, convicted about six weeks ago for the robbery of a jewelry firm in Crown Point, where he obtained several diamonds, has been located near Syracuse, N. Y., and is being pursued by a posse, according to word received in Lafayette. Voelker was the prisoner who escaped while being taken from Crown Point to the state reformatory at Jeffersonville by Sheriff Whitaker, of Lake county. He escaped by slipping the manacles from his hands and leaping from the train while it was in motion at Lafayette. A reward has been offered for his capture.